Festivals and concert series
The early music festival scene in the UK is extraordinarily creative and adventurous. Emerging and established artists alike are bridging the gap between the past and the present with inspiring programmes at festivals and in concert series across the country.
Machynlleth Festival
The best of Classical, Welsh and World music in the heart of Wales.
Every August the Machynlleth Festival fills the vibrant Welsh market town of Machynlleth with music for a week. Running for over 20 years each year the Festival presents a wide variety of music, always prominently featuring Welsh music and artists, top-tier Classical artists from around the world, as well as jazz, folk and world music, alongside talks, workshops, family events and more.
- ☀️Summer festival
Thu, 21 August 2025
Machynlleth, Wales
Coming Soon
Oxford Early Music by Candlelight
Music and words in a collection of imaginative and scholarly programmes, performed by members of award-winning ensemble Charivari Agréable.
- ☀️Summer festival
- Wed, 20 August 2025
- Exeter College Chapel, Oxford
Folkestone Early Music
Throughout the year- Sat, 23 August 2025
- The Grand Hotel, Folkestone
St Clement Danes Sunday Recital Series
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 24 August 2025
- St Clement Danes Church, London
Old Chapel Court Concerts
- ☀️Summer series
- Sun, 24 August 2025
- Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury
Early & Baroque Music at the BBC Proms
- ☀️Summer festival
- Wed, 27 August 2025
- Royal Albert Hall, London
Coming Up Next
Loki Music
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 30 August 2025
- Southwest London
Handel Hendrix House
- Throughout the year
- Mon, 1 September 2025
- Handel Hendrix House
Lammermuir Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Thu, 4 September 2025
- Lammermuir, Scotland
St Martin-in-the-Fields
- Throughout the year
- Fri, 5 September 2025
- St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Temple Music Foundation
- Throughout the year
- Tue, 9 September 2025
- Temple, London
Early Music at Wigmore Hall
- Throughout the year
- Wed, 10 September 2025
- Wigmore Hall, London
Music@Malling
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 19 September 2025
- West Malling, Kent
love:Handel
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 26 September 2025
- Norwich
Cambridge Early Music
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 27 September 2025
- Cambridge
Banbury Early Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Sat, 27 September 2025
- St Mary's Church, Banbury
Tetbury Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Sat, 27 September 2025
- St Marys' Church, Tetbury
Salisbury Musick
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 3 October 2025
- Salisbury Medieval Hall + other locations
Worcestershire Early Music
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 5 October 2025
- Old Bishop's Palace, Worcester
Colchester Early Music
- ❄️Winter series
- Sun, 5 October 2025
- St Andrew's Church, Marks Tey
Hatfield House Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Thu, 9 October 2025
- Hatfield House, Hatfield, Herts
Brighton Early Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 10 October 2025
- Brighton
Early Music at Kings Place
- Throughout the year
- Mon, 13 October 2025
- Kings Place, London
Barbican Centre & Milton Court
- Throughout the year
- Thu, 16 October 2025
- Barbican Centre, London
Brecon Baroque Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 17 October 2025
- Brecon
Concerts in the West
- Throughout the year
- Fri, 24 October 2025
- Ilminster, Somerset
Music in the Round
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 25 October 2025
- Sheffield
London Bach Society
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 31 October 2025
- City of London
London Festival of Baroque Music
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Sat, 1 November 2025
- St John's Smith Square, London
Wimbledon International Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Sat, 1 November 2025
- Wimbledon
London International Festival of Early Music
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Wed, 12 November 2025
- Blackheath, London
Saffron Hall
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 29 November 2025
- Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
York Early Music Christmas Festival
- ❄️Winter festival
- Fri, 5 December 2025
- York
Mayfield Festival
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 26 April 2026
- Mayfield, East Sussex
Coming Later A-Z
Baroquestock Festival
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead
Bath Bachfest
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- Bath
Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Beverley and East Riding, Yorkshire
Bristol Early Music Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- All Saints Church, Clifton, Bristol
Burghclere Baroque
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Church of the Ascension, Burghclere
Buxton International Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Buxton
Chipping Campden Music Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- St James' Church, Chipping Campden
Concerts at the National Musicians' Church
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Holy Sepulchre Church, Holborn Viaduct
Dolmetsch Centenary at Haslemere Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Haslemere
Early Voices/Lleisiau Cynnar
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
English Haydn Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- St Mary Magdalene Church, Bridgnorth
Esher Gibbons-Fest
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Old St George’s Church, Esher
Fairest Isle Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Isle of Wight - Newport, Ryde and Ventnor
Garsington Opera
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Wormsley, Buckinghamshire
Harpsichord en Fête
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- Saint Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh and King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen
Iberian & Latin American Music Society
- 🍂Autumn series
- TBA
- Numerous venues - London & Manchester
JdP Concert Series
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- The Chapel, St Hilda's College
Keble Early Music Festival
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- Keble College Chapel, Oxford
King's Lynn Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- King's Lynn, Norfolk
Leamington Music
- ❄️Winter series
- TBA
- St Mary's Church, Warwick
Lewes Baroquefest
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Lewes, East Sussex
Lichfield Festival
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Lichfield, Staffordshire
London Handel Festival
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- St George's, Hanover Square
Longborough Festival Opera
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Longborough, Gloucestershire
Medieval Music in the Dales
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Bolton Castle, North Yorkshire
Music at Paxton
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Paxton House, Scottish Borders
Music in Country Churches
- ☀️Summer series
- TBA
- Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, East Sussex, Devon, Suffolk
New College Early Music Series
- ☀️Summer series
- TBA
- The New Space, Oxford
Newbury Spring Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Newbury, Berkshire
Ornaments of the Baroque
- 🍂Autumn series
- TBA
- LSO St Luke's, Old Street, London
Otley Baroque
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- All Saints’ Church, Otley
Oxford Festival of the Arts
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Oxford
Plumstead Peculiars
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- The Ascension Church, Plumstead
Purbeck Art Weeks Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Various locations in the Purbecks, Dorset
Roman River Spring Concerts
- 🌱Spring series
- TBA
- Colchester, Essex
Sands Films Music Room
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Rotherhithe, London
Saxon Shore Early Music Kenardington
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Church of St Mary, Kenardington, Ashford
Shakespeare in Music
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Stratford-upon-Avon
St Cecilia's Hall
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Edinburgh, Scotland
St George's Bristol Baroque Series
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- St George's Bristol
Stoke Newington Early Music Festival
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Stoke Newington
Stour Music
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph
Surrey Bach Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- St Mary’s Church, Stoke D’Abernon
The Georgian Concert Society
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh
The Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Govan Old Parish Church, Govan & Linthouse Parish Church
The Grange Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Northington, Hampshire
The Music Summer School and Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Gresham's School, Holt
The Ryedale Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Ryedale, North Yorkshire
Tilford Bach Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- All Saints Church, Tilford, Surrey
Unmeasured Chamber Concerts
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- The Octagon Chapel, Norwich
Vermeer Chamber Concerts
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- London
York Early Music Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- National Centre for Early Music, York